Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment?

[kevin pop account <kevin () gannons net>]

Lets hope that the message is not correct as it would
not be in the spirit of why the network was designed.

BTW Over here in Ireland Friday will be a national day
of morning I have never seen so many people touched
by any event. My heart goes out to all those affected.

Regards,
Kevin

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Seth M. Kusiak wrote:

> I just sent eveything that I was forwarded, I don't know anymore nor have I 
> heard this from my provider. I find this hard to believe and I just wanted 
> to see if someone knew something that I didn't.
>
> kevin pop account writes: 
>
> > Should this request not be via the telcos pre-empting the circuits ? 
> >
> > Also does the military not operate its own private network services
> > both voice/data ? 
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kevin 
> >
> > On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Seth M. Kusiak wrote: 
> >
> > > Has anyone received a request like the one that was I forwarded below?
> > >   
> > >
> > > [Stuff Deleted]  
> > >
> > > We just received a call from our ISP that they were contacted by Quest 
> > > Communications who is a major National ISP who in tern was contacted by the 
> > > Military and were asked to shut down a lot of their equipment connecting 
> > > clients to the Internet so that there would be more bandwidth. Other ISP 
> > > supposedly received the same call.  
> > >
> > > Get ready for a big outage....  
> > >
> > > [More Stuff Deleted] 
>